Gapminder | Female Labour Force Participation 2019
-Manjari Shankar
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Highest LBFR (2019)

95.7

(Burundi)

Lowest LBFR (2019)

7.51

(Yemen)

Average LBFR (2019)

61.6
Countries by Labour Force Participation Rate (LBFR)
Top 20 countries with largest female workforce in 2019

Objective: Women’s labor force participation has increased significantly in the last century, including LMICs and all sectors.The same period has seen dramatic declines in global fertility trajectories.The correlation below stems from curiosity around all the literature around this.

Babies per woman vs Female LBFR: 1999-2019

The data used in this dashboard is shown below and can be downloaded as a CSV.

This data comes from the r gapminder package and is originally sourced from the Gapminder Foundation.

Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.

Gapminder was founded in 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling. The name Gapminder was derived from the “Mind the Gap” warning messages on the London Underground.

One of Hans Rosling’s videos:

Indicators used in this dashboard:

Indicator Female Labour Force Participation Rate (%)
Definition For age-group 25-54, % of female labour to total female population
Year 2019
Source. https://www.ilo.org/ilostat/

Indicator Babies per woman (total fertility)
Definition # of children born to each woman with prevailing age-specific fertility rate
Year 2019
Source. http://gapm.io/dtfr